eThekwini among 3 metros with unqualified audits
eThekwini Municipality has been listed as one of the three metros in the unqualified audit sphere.
Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke presented her 2023/24 local government audit outcomes to Parliament this afternoon.
Ekurhuleni and Johannesburg were the other two major municipalities with unqualified audits.
" Given the scale of their operations, the complexity thereof, but also the resources that they manage and even their location, they should have no difficulty attracting the skills that they need to run their environment.
"The three that sit in the unqualified space of those only the City of Ekurhuleni gave us quality financial statements when we started the audit, and eThekwini, meaning that their ability to compile financial statements is quite strong."
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But Maluleke says one of the things the metro struggled with was giving credible performance information.
" If somebody doesn't give you a good performance report, it tells you that their ability to plan for performance, monitor the execution of their plans on an ongoing basis, is quite weak. When we don't get good-quality performance reports, it tells us that the process is quite broken.
“The quality of information being prepared for decision-making in the quarter at the halfway point is poor. It says that the attention that the leaders of that municipality are paying to service delivery matters is sub-optimal."
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